Exabyte Offers High Capacity VXA Media Tape Cartridges

The momentum for high capacity VXA tape technology developed by Exabyte continues to grow worldwide. The founding members of the VXA tape alliance are Sony, Imation, Exabyte, TDK and Matsushita (Panasonic) while the other members that joined the alliance afterwards are TOLIS Group, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Tech Data, Symantec/VERITAS, Computer Associates, Adaptec and Ingram Micro. Each member of the VXA tape alliance has contributed with their resources and efforts to fulfill the mission of the alliance. VXA tape alliance continuously focuses on providing education and updated information to the consumers about the latest features & innovative techniques of VXA backup tape format. The VXA tape alliance also advocates for the continued adoption of the VXA media format across the globe.

VXA tape technology offers improved data reliability and increased output characteristics. Discreet data packets have been introduced in the VXA media technology that are more reliable and ensure increased output frequency than the linear track technology. The members of the VXA alliance share a common goal, which is to assist the enterprises and enable them to address their backup storage requirements in a more cost effective and intelligent manner. The increasing numbers of leading media manufacturing companies joining the VXA tape alliance indicates that the global data storage market is backing and supporting the highly reliable VXA data tape technology.

Due to the rigorous testing mechanism of VXA tape, the leading organization of the world have found the VXA media tape technology as one of the most economical and robust format in both automation & drive products. High capacity VXA data tapes are well renowned for their unmatched durability, long durable life, massive storage capacity, increased output level, fast transfer speed and breakthrough features. IDC conducted a survey on tape automation revenue & shipments. According to the results of the report, there has been a dramatic increased in the growth of the high capacity VXA data tape technology across the world. Exabyte VXA tape format has no doubt earned the position of a global market leader in the low-end tape automation. This market segment is classified by Exabyte as entry level automation that has been specifically engineered for the departmental and SMBs markets. Low end automation is defined by IDC as primarily autoloaders along with incorporation of one of these technologies: DLT VS, VXA, AIT 1-2, DDS/DAT and SLR.

The third generation of VXA tape format was launched worldwide by Exabyte on October, 2005.  This third generation VXA data tape included VXA-320 packet loader and VXA-320 packet drive. It has the capability of recording data of 320GB on a single data tape at a rate of 24 Mbps. VXA 320 packet loader by Exabyte is a high quality 1-u autoloader offering slots of 10 tape cartridges with capacity of 3.2 TB. It also features an Ethernet port & bar code that are very useful in remote management. The parts of the Exabyte VXA cartridge are kept safe from bumps, shocks as the tape media is packed in a highly durable cartridge shell.